Wednesday, June 27, 2007

almost knitting

Still my favorite pattern, and I do love the yarn. Summer's here though and the heat just makes me want to spin instead of finish up wool socks :) I really do like this pattern in handspun-- mine's never as even as commercial yarn and in patterned socks it just jumps out, the thick/thin (even if its not apparent, I'm just supercritical about it.) In Pomatomus though, the twisted stitches and the patterning don't really show the thinner/thicker spots in the yarn-- and its just a delight to see the detail of yarn stand out in the twisted stitches.

The color's fun too-- this single sock reminds me of an iceberg for some reason. At the heel, the yarn turned much darker and I can't wait to see how the other one shapes up colorwise.

I'm not feeling it, though the color is fun. Knitting these on US 0 has just taken the wind from my sails-- its just a consistent reminder my handspun singles were too thin to begin with. The ugh is mitigated by the fact I knit a good chunk of these by the light of "Deadliest Catch" while waiting up expectantly, so it keeps me sailing on :)

Back to my wheel :)

(i've recently switched to uploading pics full size to flickr and using their "medium" resized photo for blog posts-- its smaller than the quarter sized one i used to use. any input-- is it too small? i feel like it is and i can't see details i want to highlight, but can't really tell if i'm just being too picky. i would love your input if you had any!)

I've recently gotten DSL (I know, I know.. last person in the world to do so) so I feel no pain now, but back when I was on dial-up I had to set aside special time to visit yours and other graphics-intensive blogs that I loved. I'd set pages loading and then go have a cup of tea. I think the Medium size is a good compromise for blogging. Plus, you can always click on the image to see a larger size at Flickr.

Love the handspun poms - the color is nice and cool for this time of year!

As for the pics - I think they look great on the blog - if I want to see more detail I can click on over to flickr. It's a great idea and one I may start doing as well. I usually re-size before I upload.

the purple socks are amaaaazing! (i'm a little biased toward the purple end of the spectrum)like others have said, clicking on the pics to see all the details at flickr works well. no complaints from me!

I think the iceberg socks are super-cool! You know, I watched a marathon session of that fishing show several weekends ago and they kept promising to show the big ice, but never did. Soooo disappointing.

I was wearing a pair of varigateds in the same pattern just yesterday and loved 'em to pieces.

Purple, of course, is never wrong.

As far as pic sizes go, if I'm on a desktop, I like the full-on pr0n-y money shots :).

HOWEVER, I usually look at your site with a handheld device and the small pix are way way better for it. (In fact, they look really good on there.) Otherwise I have to wait forever while my device loads 'em down.

So my vote would be to do what you did here. Have the small ones on your site, put the big 'uns back on flickr.

Your work is always so beautiful. I believe handcrafts of all type are a labor of love ... If that's true, just how much love DO you have in that heart, anyway? Sheesh.